Jacob Burnet

James Burnet (22 February 1770-10 May 1853) was a US Senator from Ohio (NR) from 10 December 1828 to 4 March 1831, succeeding William Henry Harrison and preceding Thomas Ewing.

Biography
James Burnet was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1770, and he became a lawyer in Cincinnati, Northwest Territory in 1796. He served in the State House of Representatives from 1814 to 1816 and as an associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1821 to 1828, when he was appointed to the US Senate to finish William Henry Harrison's term. Burnet served until 1831, and he went on to become president of Cincinnati College and the Medical College of Ohio. He died in 1853.